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Jenny Colgan

Jenny T. Colgan was born in 1972 in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. After studying at Edinburgh University, she worked for six years in the health service, moonlighting as a cartoonist and a stand-up comic, before the publication of her first novel Amanda's Wedding in 2000. In 2013, her novel "Welcome to Rosie Hopkin's Sweetshop of Dreams" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She is now working on her next novel.
She is married with Andrew, a marine engineer, and had three children, Wallace, Michael-Francis, and Delphie. She mostly lives in France, with frecuently visits to London. She occasionally writes for The Guardian newspaper, as well as a TV series.

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Fiction, Fiction, general, England, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, romance, general, London (england), fiction, Social life and customs, Women authors, Young women, Bakers, Christmas stories, English Short stories, English fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Fiction, women, Friendship, Friendship, fiction, Love stories, Man-woman relationships, Romance fiction, Scotland, fiction, Scottish Short stories, Scottish authors, Scottish fiction, Women

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London (England), Scotland, England, Loch (Scotland), London, Ness

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Shirley Manson

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  • Jenny T. Colgan
  • Jenny Colgan
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July 1, 2019 Edited by Amy W add goodreads
September 6, 2013 Edited by CGN Edited without comment.
September 6, 2013 Edited by CGN Added new photo
September 7, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import